immigration
ICE Officer to People Whose Home He Entered: 'the Warrant Is Coming Out of My Balls'
Max Read · 10/23/11 11:05AMOn October 20 of last year, two armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents broke into the two-bedroom Nashville apartment of Angel Enrique and Jesus Antonio, shattering a window and shouting racial slurs. Did they even have a warrant, Enrique and Antonio asked? "The warrant," one agent told them, "is coming out of my balls." So... no.
'Liberal Extremist' Court Says Alabama Can't Track Students' Immigration Info
Max Read · 10/15/11 10:09AMAll Alabama wants to do is stop the Mexicans from coming to its state and taking "the jobs nobody wants to do," by forcing visible minorities to carry proof of legal immigration status on them at all times, and also tracking the immigration status of schoolchildren (who are literally stealing education), but will the "liberal extremists" of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals let them? Noooo!
South Park Imagines a Mexican-Free America
Matt Cherette · 10/12/11 10:52PMWhat would happen if illegal immigrants from Mexico concluded that economic conditions in the U.S. were just as bad—or worse—than those in their native country and decided to return home en masse? How would the US Border Patrol deal with a reverse immigration crisis? That was the plot of tonight's South Park, and you'll find answers to both those questions in the highlight reel above.
Young White College Students Don't Want Their Parents to Pay for Anyone Else to Go to College
Richard Lawson · 10/12/11 02:58PMThe mumbling woodchucks over at Fox & Friends were discussing Texas governor Rick Perry's support of the DREAM Act this morning and, to provide an opposing voice, brought on two young men from Texas A&M's Texas Aggie Conservative Student Group.
Alabama's Draconian Anti-Immigrant Law Is Having the Desired Effect
John Cook · 10/04/11 12:54PMStephen Colbert's Radical Plan to Curb Illegal Immigration
Matt Cherette · 09/29/11 01:43AMA week after he suggested the U.S. government pillage the caskets of dead people to reduce its budget deficit, Stephen Colbert used tonight's Report to put forth an even more controversial plan for addressing the problem of illegal immigration and the "anchor baby" phenomenon. Let's just say that the umbilical cord is about to become much more important.
Meet the College Chancellor with a Suburban Sex Dungeon
Maureen O'Connor · 08/01/11 12:48PMArizona Officially Starts Begging for Border Fence Money
Jeff Neumann · 07/20/11 05:38AMIf you're like everyone else these days, you occasionally ask yourself, "What's the dumbest way that can I blow some of my disposable income?" Remember when State Senator Steve Smith (the "birther bill" guy) hatched a plan to accept donations to help build a fence along Arizona's border with Mexico? Well, their website went live today!
The Racist and Homophobic Yard Sale Posting You Won't Believe
Brian Moylan · 07/18/11 12:53PMMexican Babies Now Greatest Threat to the American Way
Hamilton Nolan · 07/15/11 09:14AMMarried Gay Couple Wins Fight Against Deportation
Richard Lawson · 07/01/11 05:12PMAnti-Immigration Law Works as Intended, Screws Farmers
Max Read · 06/22/11 08:56PMJohn McCain Blames Wildfires on Madcap Torch-Wielding Illegals
Jim Newell · 06/20/11 11:22AMArizona has been having some troubles again, this time with massive wildfires torching the already barren hellscape. You know why? Because it's a desert. All you need is, say, a golf club nicking a rock, or some other painfully simple action, and boom: death flames everywhere. Or you can just blame the illegal immigrants in their pyromanic fly-by-night encampments, as Sen. John McCain has.
Would a Moat With Alligators Solve Our Illegal Immigration Problems?
Jim Newell · 05/10/11 04:11PMBarack Obama visited El Paso, Texas today to jump start the case for comprehensive immigration reform, yet again, as well as to make fun of Republicans. He mocks the party's ever-moving goalposts on border security, such as wanting more and more troops on the border and demanding an even "higher" fence. "Maybe they'll need a moat," he went on. "Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat." You mean we haven't even tried this yet? Well, now it's too late; alligator prices are through the roof these days.
What Do You Get for Donating to Arizona's Border Fence?
Jeff Neumann · 05/09/11 03:07AMTea Party Patriots™ and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer have initiated a Kickstarter-style scheme to solicit donations for a border fence to keep the Mexicans out of their righteous, desert oasis. Pretty clever. So, what can donors expect in return for their contributions (besides resting in the knowledge that they're True Patriots, of course)? The sponsor of the bill that Brewer signed, state Senator Steve Smith of "birther bill" fame, told the AP that contributors might receive a piece of paper that reads, "[I] helped build the Arizona wall." Uh, cool. He adds, "I think it's going to be a really, really neat thing." Golly, keeping them dang Mexicans out of America's grundle is going to be just swell. Pitch in while there's still time! You'll also be paying for the 50 cents an hour that Arizona inmates will receive for their work on the fence. Win-win.
Brewer Gifts Arizona With Border Fence and Tea Party License Plates
Lauri Apple · 04/30/11 01:20PMGeorgia Legislature Passes Arizona-Style Immigration Bill
Remy Stern · 04/15/11 12:36PMBerlusconi to Scare Off Migrants in Person
Jeff Neumann · 03/30/11 05:16AMAt Least Six States Less Racist Than Arizona
Jeff Neumann · 03/06/11 01:39PMIt's been close to a year since Arizona passed SB-1070 — the anti-immigration law that encourages racial profiling and can land a cop in jail if they don't do it — and several states were supposed ride the wave of hate and pass similar bills. But, as Muzaffar Chishti from the Migration Policy Institute told the Los Angeles Times, "Now I think reality has set in."